JEFFERSONIAN REPUBLICAN
Thursday, February 24, 1848.
Terms, $2,00 in advance. $2,25 half yearly; and $2,50 if not
paid before the end ol the year.
fXp h. BARNES, at Milford, is duly author
ized to act as Agent for this paper.to receive sub
scriptions, advertisements, orders for job-work,
and payments lor tne same
A number of Locofoco editor, who are the
most severe in their denunciations of" Old Fed
eralists," advocale the election of Mr. Buchanan
to the Presidency a man who was the leader
of the old Federal party in thi Siaie. and who
opposed and denounced the last War. Such
15 Ittofoco consistency !
r .
Mr. David Wilmot has been elected a dele
gate from Bradford couniy, to he Locofoco
State Convention, which will meet in HarrUr
v on the 4ih March nox. lie will no doubll
rffer rcsolti'ions on the subject of iho Proviso,
and a rich scene" will thereupon enue among'
the " harmonious democracy," without doubt-.
There was a gathering of very sillyLocofu-
cos on iho 30th uli. Divers foolish -things
were done. A Mr. Emrie moved that " some
one take tho sense of ihe meeting." Any one
might have- taken, the " sense of the meeting,"
end yet not had a thimble-full of the article.
Prentice.
FROM WASHINGTON.
Fremont's Sentence remitted. Peace
Propositions.
Washington, Feb. 20.
Col. Fremont has been found guilty of all the
charges preferred before the Court Martial, of mu
tiny, disobedience of orders, and conduct unbe
coming an officer. The Court decreed dismissal
from the service, the lesser penalty of the law, but
recommended him to the lenity of the President
by a vote of seven to six. The President dissent
ed from the Court on tho charge of mutiny, but
approved the rinding on the other two. He then
remitted the sentence, and ordered him to duty.
It is said Col. Fremont has rosigned his commis
sion. Despatches were received this morning by the
editor of the Union, and by others, confirming the
rumors which reached here last evening of the ar
rival of propositions for peace from Mexico. The
terms are those originally submitted by Mr. Trist,
with aqualification for a standing army of twelve
thousand men to protect tho Government. It is
also stated that the Mexican Congxess will ratify
.this negotiation without much division.
Washington, Feb. 21.
Hon. John Quincy Adam.
This venerable gentlemen was taken with a
fit of paralysis this morning, in his seat in Con
gress. Dr. Fries caught him, and he was taken
to his residence. The House immediately ad
journed. This incident, so like that of Chatham's,
-has-created a profound sensation in our city.
Easy oat Gen. Scott!
The Washington correspondent of the Phil
adelphia, Ledger writes :
Of course Gen. Scott, a I always wrote
you, is virtually recalled, and not merely sus
pended. The latter term is merely expressive
of the fact that "there ate reasons for his recall.
The Court of Inquiry will bring these to light,
and show that Gen. Scott's direct offence was
not military, but an assumption of diplomatic
power
Gen. Scott, in a word, advised Mr
Trist, after the latter was recalled, to entertain
the Mexican proposition oj peace, and he became
thus indirectly the author, or at least co-operator
in the negotiations. Gen. Scott had no author
ity to do so, and is answerable for the act ; but
the Administration will not be rigorous in regard
t him, and content itself with making out the
charge, and withdrawing Gen. Scott from the
command of the army."
We ask the conntry to think over this state
ment. Ask any advocate of the War why it is
not terminated, and he will answer that Mexico
refuses to make Peace. The Whigs are daily
abused by their adversaries with prolonging the
War by encouraging the Mexicans to hold out
and refuse to make Peace. Congress is called
on to vole new levies and loans in double quick
time, in order to driv.e Mexico to make Peace.
And yet we have the illustrious and triomphani
Ipadpr of oar own armies ignominiously deposed
for ihe crime of advising Mr. Triet to receive
ami forward to Washington Mexican overtures
for Peace ! Was there ever before a War bo
steeped in hypocrisy and villainy as this ?
It is settled, wo presume, that the efforts
f r Pffice in Mexico are to be fully, as. they al
ready hare been nearly, foiled and annihilated
at Washington. Mexico is allowed no chance
to make Peace with t. The Peace party is
in power there, but "the War party is in prwer
Lere. and no prac can be made. But let ui
ftidf,pose our Sarita Annas snd Almontes, and all
i jjl.be rpeirdtly djuwted. Tribune.
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BY REQUEST.
,From (he Penna. Inquirer.
NEW YORK AND ERIE RAIL ROAD.
Philadelphia and Northern Penn-
vania.
Mr. Editor: I see by your paper of this morning,
that the lower House of the New Jersey Legisla
ture has passed a bill,rauthorizing a subscription
of 500,000 to the Belvidere and Delaware Rail
road a sum which in addition to present subscrip
tions, is supposed to be sufficient to complete the
road.
Neither the citizens of Northern Pennsylvania,
nor of this city, seem to be sufficiently aware of
the importance of this movement. The presont
road from Philadelphia to Trenton, in connection
with that now to be made from Trenton to Belvi
dere 13 miles above Easton, will form two-thirds
of the whole road to connect Philadelphia by rail
road, with the New York and .Erie Railroad,
where it will cross the Delaware at Carpenter's
Point, in Pike county, about 45 miles above Bel
videre. According to a statement in a pamphlet issued
by. the New York and Erie Railroad Company, in
vindication ol their adoption of the Pennsylvania
route down tho Delaware, instead of the more
Northern route through Sullivan county, New
York, that the grades aro so nearly level that one
engine can take over tho former (Delaware) 307
tons, while it would take four trains to take the
same tonnage over the 60 feet grades of the latter
(or New York) route tho same distance ; and that
the Company will save S558,690 per annum in
cost of transportation by the adoption of the Del
aware, and that on 400,000 tons only, while they
confidently assert that they will carry 500,000 tons
over their road within five to ten years after its
completion.
This saving to the Company will be equal to 6
per cent, on the whole estimated cost (9,000,000)
of making a single track from Now York to Dun
kirk on Lake Erie.
Tho grade of the road fiom Carpenter's Point
through Belvidere and Trenton to this city, is sim
ilar to that above that point, of which the Compa
ny speaks so favorably while the high grades
(over 60 feet per mile) from Carpenter's Point to
New Yoik, are, if possible, still more unfavorable
to the Company than those which they have avoid
ed in Sullivan county.
It will thus be seen that Philadelphia occupies
a much better relative position for a connection
with the road at tho place where it crosses the
Delaware than the city of New York a fact which
secures to the citizens of northern Pennsylvania,
at no distant day, a choice between two of the best
Atlantic markets, for the sale of produce or pur
chase of merchandise.
The Company is fully aware that a branch from
Carpenter's Point down the Valley of the Dela
ware, must naturally divert to this city a portion
of its business, and is at thi3 moment actively en
gaged at Harrisburg, in endeavoring to force thro'
our Legislature a bill, repealing the right of Penn
sylvania to make a connection on Pennsylvania
soil, and offering on certain conditions as a sub
stitute, a connection in New York State, over a
Bridge to be erected by the Company at or near
Carpenter's Point, in addition to their required
Bridge, some five miles above. Thus removing
the point of divergajice from our own State to New
York, and subjecting the trade at that point to the
control of opposing interests, well understood by
business men, and to the risk of two Bridges over
the Delaware, in a section of country, where, with
in 40 miles of the proposed crossing, every Bridge
has been swept away by freshets within a few
years past.
The citizens of Pennsylvania generally, and
more especially those of Northern and North-Eastern
Pennsylvania, owe it to the State and to their
own interest to be active in opposing any new
Grant to. this Company, which shall forfeit the
right of our own State to have a connection on
Pennsylvania soil free from the risk of bridges
and free from the undue control ol opposing in-
terests at the point of divergance. I sincerely
p t t jf our gjsjature does not confine the
Company to the point at which they have, by the
last proviso of 1st Section of the present law stip
ulated for a connection, viz: "At or near Carpen
ter's Point," they will at least require the bridge
offered by the Company, to be finished simulta
neously with the one above, and by all means ro
tain their present right to have a connection in
Pennsylvania, even if its citizens must go through
tho Glass House rock to reach the road at Bul
den's Basin. C.
The JVtiw Hope JDcfnnct.
The committee appointed to investigate tho
affairs of the New Hope Bank, of New Jersey.
have reported the result of their investigations, j
The officers of tho concern refused to be ex
amined. The commi'tee reported that the Bank
had failed four times since 1820. Tho only
funds on hand to redeem their worthless issues
was one hundred and fifty coppers ! A depos
itor wanted these pennies, bm he was told they
were wanted by the Bank to. pay toll I
Prpn'ico of the Louisville Journal, says
pointedly A little over forty years ago, Aa
ron Butr was brought to trial on a charge of
treasoe for undertaking to raise wi-hin the lim-,
its of the Unitt-d States the means of wresting
Mexico from the Dominion of Spain. It was
treason then Uj dream of the conquest of Mex
ico, but i is xow tho height of, p t'rioti-m to
undertake it !'r
HIGHLY IMPORTANT.
Treaty xf Peace with Mexico.
General Scott taken the Responsibility.
BOUNDARY OF THE RIO GRANDE.
New IGexico msd California ceded
to the United States.
Arrival of the Special Messenger at Wash
vigtvn, cj-c. cc. 6fc.
Peace Intelligence.
"We have received (says the N. Y. Herald)
what we believe to be authentic intelligence of a
treaty of peace with Mexico having been negoti
ated and accepted by tho Mexican government,
at Queretaro, by General Scott, on the basis of
the instructions sent out by the government last
year.
This intelligence arrived at New Orleans on
the 13th, by the steamer New Orleans, bringing
Vera Cruz dates to the 8th inst. Mr. Freaner,
the bearer of despatches from General Scott, has
also been landed at Mobile by the steamer Iris.
The government messenger has arrived in
Washington.
These despatches contain the treaty of pence
proposed by the Mexican Congress at Queretaro.
General Scott took the responsibility of ac
cepting this treaty, under certain conditions, and
of forwarding it to the American government ut
Washington.
One of the conditions is, that 12,000 American
troops are to remain in the city of Mexico till
certain obligations are complied with. The ba
lance to be withdrawn.
The boundary lino is to be the Rio Grande up
to the Gila, giving- New Mexico and California
to the United States.
The United States is to give a pecuniary con
sideration to Mexico, of a small amount compar
ed wilh that in the rejected treaty of Tacubara.
Gen. Scott, as Commander-in-chief of tho
American Army, has taken the whole of the re
sponsibility of accepting this treaty, and for
warding it to our government. Mr. Trist's agen
cy in it is probably subsiduary to that of General
Scott.
Great excitement prevails at New Orleans,
and greater at Washington.
Annexed are the details of the news :
From the National Intelligencer. Fob. 21 .J
From several sources, each confirming the oth
er, we learnt, last evening, under circumstances
to command our entire confidence, that a project
of a treaty of peace with Mexico, signed by Mr.
Trist, and, as we believe, by the Mexican author
ities, has been received in this city, and is now
undoubtedly in the hande of the Executive. The
terms of the treaty, as we dimly understand them,
are, the establishment of the Rio Grande as the
boundary between the United States and Mexico,
and the cesssion by Mexico of the provinces of
New Mexico and Upper California to the United
States, and the payment by the United States to
Mexico of a compensation therefor, say fifteen
millions of dollars.
However the fact may vary from these particu
lars, there is no doubt that the treaty substantial
ly to this effect is now in this city.
From the Mobile Herald, Feb. 13.
The Iris arrived at Mobile on the 12th, from
Vera Cruz, whence she sailed on the 7th inst.
She brought over an officer named Fraener (we
are not certain that the name is spelled properly)
as bearer of despatches from Gen. Scott. He was
in great haste, and seemed to be full of important
matter. Attempts were made to " pump" him,
but they failed. He left the city of Mexico on
the 3d insL, and started last evening for Mont
gomery on board the steamboat Montgomery. It
is supposed he carries important despatches with
him.
An unexpected climax occurred recently at
a Locofoco meeting in Kittaning, Pa. The
leaders in that vicinity had every thing cut and
dried, and expected the country people to swal
low all they said ; but lo ! upon the presenta-
tton of a aeries of resolutions sustaining all the
measures of the Administration, and abusing
the VVhlgi in the usual style, a country Demo
cral, offered gome additional resolutions, which
were received with loud plaudits and mthusias
tic admiration, praising Generals Taylor and
Scott. The leaders were nonplussed, but after
some time succeeded in carrying an adjourn
ment, before the question was taken on the a
doption of the resolutions. Tho meeting has
not since been resumed !---Ar. American.
An Important Uill.
The House of the New Jersey legislature,
a few days since, passed a bill authorizing the
Camden and Amboy Railroad Company tosnb-
scribe five hundred thousand dollars of stock
in the Trenton and Belvidere Railroad. It
passed by a vote of 31 to 22', and met with
much opposition from gentleman whose inter
ests are identified wi-h rnal routes competing
for the trade of the Lehigh and upper Delaware.
The tariff of 1846 is beginning to work finely.
Tho amount of specie exported from New
York doring the week ending on Friday Ian,
was $744,437, or nearly three quarters of a
million tf dollars to pay for British goods im
ported under the new Tariff I No wonder there
ts unusual tightness in the money market.
Kx-President Adams still survives, but tho re
sult of ht3 attack is very doubtful. '"
Another JLetlev front Gen. Taylor
The public will remember that Gen.Gaines
last summer, made public a letter fram Gen.
Taylor containing some of his views relative to
the war and its further prosecution. The Gov
ernment thereupon re-enacted the noted Gen
eral Order No. 050,' and communicated it with
a copy of Gen. T.'s letter to him. The follow
ing reply to that despatch, was recently fur
nished to the House by President Polk, in an
swer to a call from that body.
Head Quarters Army of Occupaion, V
, . Agua Nueva, March -3, 1847. J
I have had tho honor to reeeive your com
munication of January 27, enclosing a newspaper-slip,
and expressing the regret of the De
partment that the letter copied in that lip, ami
which was addressed by myself to lYlaj Gen.
Gaines should have been publihed. Although
your letter does not convey the direct censure
of the Department and the President; yet, w hen
it was taken in connection null the revival of
the paragraph in the regulations of 1825, touch
ing the publication of private letters concerning
operations in the field, I am not permitted to
doubt that I have become a sulject of Execu
tive disapprobation. To any expression of it,
coming wj.h the authority of the President, I
C3 v 1
am bound by my duty and by rn-pect lor his
high office, patiently to submit but lest my si
lence should be construed into a tacit admission
of the grounds and conclusion set forth in your
communication, I deem it a duty which 1 owe
to myself, to submit a few remarks in reply.
1 shall be pardoned for speaking plainly.
In the first place, the published letter bears j
upon its face the most conclusive evidence that
tt was intended only for priiate persual, and
not at all for publication, it was published
without my knowledge, and contrary to my
wishes. Purely 1 need not say ihat I -am not
ln-the habit of writing for the newspapers.
The letter was a familiar one written to an old
miliiaiy friend, with whom I have been for
many years interchanging opinions on profes
sional subjects. That he should think proper,
under any circumstances, to publish tt, could
not have been forseen by me. In the absence
of proof that the publication was made without
my authority or knowledge, I may be permitted
to say, the quotation in your letter of the 650:h
paragraph of the superseded regulations of
1825, in which the terms 'mischievous and
disgraceful' are employed to characterize cer
tain letters or reports, conveys, though not open
ly, a measure of rebuke which, to say the least,
is rather harsh, and which manv think not war
ranted by the premises.
Again, I have carefully examined the letter
in question, and I do not admit that it is obnox
ious to the objections urged in your communi
cation. I see nothing in it, which under tho
same circumstances, 1 would not write again.
To suppose that it will give the enemy valua
ble information touching our posts or respective ;
line of operations, is to know ver)' little of the
Mexican sources of information, or of their ex
traordinary sagacity and facilities in keeping
constantly apprised of our movement. As to
my particular views in regard to the general
policy to be pursued towards Mexico, I per- j
caive by the public Journals that they are shared
by many distinguished statesmen also, in part
by conspicuous officers in our navy, ihe pubh
cations of whose opinions, is not obsttucted by
any regulations of the Department. It is diffi
cult, then, to imagine how the diffusion of mine
can render any peculiar aid to the enemy, or
especially to incline him to enter into negotia
tions for peace.
In conclusion, I would say it has given me
great pain to be brought into the position in
which 1 now find myself in regard to the de
partment. It has not been of my own seeking.
To the extent of my abilities, and the means
placed at my disposal, I have sought faithfully
to serve the country, by carrying out the rules
and instructions of the Executive but it can
not be concealed, that since the capitulation of
Monterey, the confidence of the department,
and, I too much fear, of the President, has been
gradually withdrawing, and my consideration
and usefulness correspondingly diminished.
The apparent determination of the department
to place me in an attitude antagonistic to the
government, has an apt illustration in the well
known fable of Esop. I ask no favor, and I
shrink from no responsibility, while entrusted
with the command in this quarter. I shall con
tinue to devote all my energies to ihe public
oood, looking for my reward to the conscien
tiousness of pure motives, and to the final ver
dict of impartial history. I am sir,
Your verv ob't servant,
Z.TAYLOR.
Maj. Gen. U. S. A. Commanding.
To Hon. W. L. Marcy, Sec'y. of Warr Wash
ington D. C.
Increase of Odd Fellowship.
It is stated in the last " Golden Rule," that
at ihe last session of the G L., U. S., a charter
was granted for a lodge in Honolulu, Sandwich
I -land, and one at Garracra, in Central Amer
ica. There is no doubt these small beginnings
are destined to prepare the way for the exten
sion of Odd Fellowship over the whole conti
nent, as well as 4 Isles of the sea.' At no time
was it in so flourishing a condition as at the
present time. Prejudice is rapidly disappear
ing before the most convincing of all proofs
good and noble deeds ere many more years
have pasM-d the influence of Odd Fellowship
will be fir It in tho moat remote parts of the globe
.rv that, wherever may be the fortune or misfor
tune. of a member to be cai, he will bo hailed
ns a bin' her.
Origin of Opposition to the School
Law in Berks County.
We find a humorous sketch in the Reading
Herald, accounting for the opposition to com
mon schools in Berks county. It repreients
a political aspirant who first aspires to the dig
nified office of Justice of the peace ; then by
way of gaining distinction above common peo
ple he dresses his girls handsomely in new
calico, anrj sends his oldest son to buinlirtg
school for three months. In the meantime, th0
old man becomes a candidate for the State Leu
islature and the article gives tho sequel
Great was the joy at Sour-Crout Hall
The election was over, and Daddy was elected
to the assembly, with only one vote again.;!
him that of a spiteful neighbor, who said he
wouldn't vote for a man that didn't know how
to spell his name but Jacob, who had now
come home, had given him a complete thrash
ing, and so that account was even.
One morning, a few days before ihe old man
was to leave for Harrisburg, ho took it into his
head that he would catechise his " b'hoy,"
when the following dialogue came off between
them.
" Well Jake, what hash you larnt at do
skool ?"
" Oh, every thing ! father," replied the hope
ful. " Ebery tings ! dunder ! tint ish more as I
pargaiued for, well let us hear some of dent."
Well then, father, I've learnt from the
schoolmaster that the earth is ns round as an
orange, (a mournful shake of the head by the
old man,) that it revoUes, that i, turns round
on its axis once every 21 hours, which causes
day and night, and"
" Stop, stop ! Dat ill do! Kitty run fur
mother, Jake's as"crazy as a lunaiics.--Mtn
Got ! my poor boy the world turn round ;
Why we would all dumblo off!"
And tho old man wont to llarrisburj; with
the fixed determination to vote against alt School
Laws and he faithfully kept his word.
We wonder if this is the representative who
directs public documents to " Beneveul ,
PotsgrqJ, Montgomery co.. Pa."
Montgomery Ledger.
Tough Story nhout a Negro.
It is stated in an Augusta, Georgia, paper,
that a negro man in ihat place of middling age
and size, weighing about 150 pounds, in the
short space of two hours, at the usual hour for
breakfast, ate and drank tho enormous quantity
of provisions comprised in the following list,
viz. : 13 cat-fish, 2 shad, I 1-2 dozen biscuit,
40 flat cakes, 1 1-2 lb. butler, 6 links of sausa
ges, 23 eggs, 30 ears of corn, 4 chickens, 2
slices of beefsteak and two of liver, 1 gallon
back-bone stew, 1 large plate of rice, 19 cups
of coffee, and 1 pint of brandy. The inconve
nience attending this experiment was so trifling,
that he immediately walked to another quarter
of the city and ate 17 watermelons, expre-sing
a desire to partake of more could they have
been found. It may be proper to add. in con
nection with the above, and it would seem
strange loo, that as regards his ordinary habits
of eating and drinking, he is remarkably abstem
ious. The Kentuckians were recently boasting of hav
ing a hog weighing 840 lbs. nett. This excneJ
the envy of the Ohio people, and the Cincimi m
Gazette proclaims that Kentucky is beat a hog
having been found in Warren county, which
weighs 939 lbs. nctt.
PILES. This distressing complaint proceeds
from a want of proper evacuation of the bow
els. The foul humors, instead of thoroughly ex
pelled from the body, are but partially so; a por
tion being left as it were at the threshold, is the
cause of this vexatious complaint called Piles; and
is frequently neglected until it ripens into a more
horrid form of disease called Fistula.
Wright's Indian Vegetable Pills, of the North
American College of Health, are a true and natur
al remedy for the above complaint, because they
effectually cleanse the body from those morbid
humers which are not only the cause of Piles, but
of every malady incident to men.
Beware of Sugar Coated Counterfeits. Re
member, that the original and only genuine Indian
Vegetable Pills have the written signature of Wil
liam Wright on the top label of each box.
.. For sale by George H. Miller, who is the only
authorized agent for Stroudsburg ; see advertise
ment for other agencies in another column.
Office and general depot, 1G9 Race st. Phil'a.
MARRIED,
In Stroudsburg, on the 1-9 th instant, by h(v
Rev. Wm. Scribner, Mr. Isaac A. Stuun'sT u
Miss Ann Smith, both of Smithln-Id town-hip.
DII,
On the 14th instant, at his residence near
Stroudsburg, Mr. Robert Gordon, aged about
60 years.
At Bushkill, on the Sth inst., Mr. Benjamin
Schoonover, aged 67 years.
In Stroudsburg,, on the 19th instant, Georoe
Wallace, infant son of Samuel Rees, jr., aged
about 6 months
In the Northampton county Alms House,. on
the 31st ultimo, Thomas Bcrk, son of Aaron
Burk, in the 17th year of his age.
In the said institution, on the 9th inst. Aaron
Burk, aged about 47 years, aud formerly fiom
Easton. '